Twine-cutter.



No. 758,832. PATENTED MAY 3, 1904. M. POBST.

TWINE CUTTER.

APPLICATION rmm un. 20, 1904 H0 MODEL.

NIT'ED STATES Patented May 3, 1904.

MORITZ FORST, OF NElV YORK, N. Y.

TWINE-CUTTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 758,832, dated May 3, 1904.

Application filed :anuary 20, 1904. Serial No. 189,807. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, MoRIrz FORST, a citizen of Austria-Hungary, residing at New York city, Manhattan, county and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improve ments in Twine-Cutters, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a twine cutter which is so constructed that the twine is severed at a distance from the delivering-nozzle. In this way a section of twine of suflicient length to be conveniently grasped by the operator will protrude from the nozzle after each cutting operation.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side view of my improved twine-cutter; Fig. 2, a plan thereof; Fig. 3, a bottom view of the cutter, showing the shears open; Fig. &, a similar view with the shears closed; Fig. 5, a side view of the cutter, and Fig. 6 a detail longitudinal section through the twineguide.

The letter a represents a holder having a slotted top plate a and adapted to receive a ball of twine. To the lower side of plate a are fulcrumed at 7/ a pair of shears 7), having cutting-blades b Opposite to pivot 7/ there depend from the plate a a pair of lugs (0 which constitute the bearings of an oscillat ing lever c, influenced by a spring 1;, which tends to normally throw the lever upward. The free end of lever cis perforated and provided with a tubular twine guide or nozzle (Z, which plays between the shear-blades and is adapted to be projected out of holder (1/ through the slot of plate a. I prefer to make the thrczul-guide sectional and insert between the sections thereof a slotted elastic washer d, Fig. 6, by means of which the twine is held to the guide by frictional contact. The lever c is slotted at c to receive one end of a link a,

which is pivoted thereto at e. The other end of link (2 is pivotally connected at f to a pair of diverging linksf, pivoted, respectively, to the free ends of the two shear-blades [fat The links f, as well as the shears, are influenced by a spring mounted on pivot 7/ and tending to normally open the links and shears.

In use the twine A is passed out of the holder through the guide (I, which is projected upward between the open blades of the shears, Figs. 1 and 3. \Vhen the twine is to be cut, the shears are closed. As the shearrblades approach each other they will, through links fa, first cause the lever c to be swungdownward, so that the thread-guide clears the blades and descends to such a distance that a given length of twine is drawn back into the holder below the shears and above the guide, Figs. 4 and 5. The upper end of this exposed length of twine is then cut by the complete closing of the shear-blades. hen the shears are released, they will be opened by the spring y, while the lever a will be again thrown up into its normal position by the spring 0. As the twine has been cut off at a distance above the nozzle, a sufficient length of twine will thus protrude to be readily grasped by the operator.

\Vhat 1 claim is A twine-cutter composed of an oscillating lever, a thread-guide at the free end thereof, a pair of pivoted shear-blades, a pair of diverging links pivoted to the free ends of said blades, and means for connecting said links to the lever, substantially as specified.

Signed by me at New York city, Manhattan,) New York, this 19th day of January,

MORITZ FORST. \Vitnesses:

Monies H. Srncnn, \VILLIAM SCIIULZ. 

